How many Animals does it take to form a Collective? Two, officially. This minimum quorum has ensured maximum wriggle room for such an expanding, contracting band of psychedelic brothers, originally ...

Animal Collective’s highly anticipated eighth album, Centipede Hz, explodes through the eardrums of indie music lovers with tracks pulsating with electronic bliss and catchy melodies. Full of the ...

One wonders what makes Animal Collective mad (unicorn poachers?). But the results often sound like a band knocking around in a room and not just using the studio as escape pod, from the screamadelic ...

I'm not an Animal Collective fan. I like Strawberry Jam a lot, and I cherish a few individual songs elsewhere, particularly “Summertime Clothes” (not least because it sounds just like the theme from ...

There are really two Animal Collective stories. There's the band's hopscotch artistic development – a self-confessed desire to never make the same record twice – which has led them through 15 years of ...

Every Animal Collective album is different. And Centipede Hz moves the psychedelic electronic band in yet another direction, adding to its rainbow oeuvre of challenging music. Centipede Hz is a ...